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The link between circumstances faced by individuals early in life (including those encountered in utero) and later life outcomes has been of increasing interest since the work of Barker in the 1970s on birth weight and adult disease. We provide such a life course perspective for the U.S. by...
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findings suggest that even when the U.S. population was largely rural and agricultural, changes in the distribution of income …
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to parents' underlying characteristics that might have also affected their children's human capital. Although winners had …Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty … slightly more children than non-winners, they did not send them to school more. Sons of winners have no better adult outcomes …
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Almond (2006) argues that in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic lowered socioeconomic status in adulthood, whereas Brown and Thomas (2016) find that the effect disappears after controlling for parental characteristics of the 1919 birth cohort. We link microdata from the 1920 and 1930...
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